Attorney survives Iran quake, fiancé dies
San Mateo Daily Journal
January 1, 2004
A Mountain View attorney is recuperating from surgery after she was pulled from the rubble of the devastating earthquake in Iran, a spokeswoman from the victim’s law firm said yesterday morning.
Adele C Freedman, 39, under went surgery in a Tehran hospital on Tuesday, according to news accounts. She was visiting Iran with her 41-year-old fiancé Tobb Dell’Oro who perished in the quake. Dell’Oro’s parents are Santa Rosa residents.
Kathleen Hartley, of GCA Law Partners LLP, said Freedman left for Iran a week or so ago. She has been with the Mountain View firm since 1999, Hartley said.
“We heard she is recuperating from her injuries and is being well taken care of. Her parents are on their way to Iran and we are looking forward to a reunion with her,” Hartley said.
News accounts said the couple was staying at an inn when the 6.5 quake leveled the city of Bam on Friday killing an more than 30,000 people and injuring approximately 150,000.
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